A girl has been critically injured after the chair she was sitting on exploded, propelling sharp chair fragments into her rear with devastating consequences.

The girl, a resident of Xiamen in China’s Fujian province, was sat using her computer when the chair she was sitting on exploded.

She was quickly taken to hospital, and in emergency surgery doctors recovered a dozen screws and fragments of plastic from her flesh.

Though severely injured and barely conscious, her condition is now stable.

Just why the chair exploded is not recorded, but the previous case of a boy killed by a similar explosion indicates the likely cause – the boy, also Chinese, was killed when a manufacturing defect caused the gas cylinder in the chair to explode, propelling sharp parts into his rectum and causing him to bleed to death before help could arrive..

A number of other cases of Chinese chairs exploding are also recorded – dubious standards of manufacturing in such chairs has the unfortunate side effect of turning them into potential death traps, capable of exploding with considerable force and projecting the cylinder and parts of the chair into the vulnerable rear of anyone unfortunate enough to be so seated when the chair goes off.

Not at all.
In the case of that girl, the fragments would still have flown up with extreme violence, and without the cushioned barrier of her bottom, they would go all the way up, very possibly into her ribcage, and consequently, her lungs, but that is the best case scenario. The worst case scenario is that the highest probability is that the fragment would almost certainly hit her in the spine.

As bad as it sounds, if something like that were to happen, the bottom would offer the best possibility of survival.

gee, horrible ! that's why i tried my best to avoid made in china. And they are proudly doing the world exhibition in shanghai, lol, should bring some of these chairs to show the world the real chinese-standard, not just glamorous olympics and world exhibiton, while earthquake causalties are piling up near tibet and asking ppl in hongkong for $ to help.

Ok I'm adding a steel plate to my chair since I have some steel and a plasma cutter on hand right now and will go shopping for one made in the USA.

I found a source after on the first page after typing in made in USA office furniture in google.
It'll cost me $300 but looking at that it'll be $300 well spent like that time I refused to accept made in China brake pads.

Was this another one of those gas pressure chairs like in the last article about this? I'll be blunt here: these same chairs are sold in the United States, and I have NEVER heard of something like this happening in the United States.

If these chairs are 'exploding' and it is linked to the pressure things in the chair? It sounds like the wrong type of gas is being put into the pressure thing.

Really, I got to hand it to China, they've managed to combine the worst aspects of Communism and Capitalism all in one horrible mess. However, as a Chinese ex-g/f of mine pointed out, it's still far better than the Emperors and the transitory times of the international speculators...

And take note, despite my deliberately "Un-PC" humor, I'm not per se "Bashing China"... Actually they are behaving rather intelligently on top of autocratically and not so humanely.

We have the WTO creating a RL "1984" scene where big corporations rule the world and cause endless war to ensure power and profit. China's just going along with the plan since it enriches them immensely and gives them many opportunities.

So, under the nose of some "Billionaire Bankers" that only see the next three month's profit, the "Fiscal Quarter" in their terms, there's an ancient long lived society probably planning to take over the world, one that thinks at least decades ahead.

Sure, they'll go "Me am Vely Honoled to selve yu!" and make all kinds of cheap junk. As Marx said: "The last capitalist shall sell us the rope with which we shall hang him!" -- Maybe I should have converted that into "Long Wang" speak (reversing Rs and Ls) but nah...

As Napoleon said: "China is a sleeping dragon and it will shake the world when it wakes."

chinese products should be banned from every 1st world country on earth...
let them kill off all the 3rd world with their crap products...
i have never seem a chi-com product that was worth a **** other than their AK and T33 variants...

That's just not true. Most Chinese manufacturing plants use 70's era equipment to save money which means tolerances will be will be very lax. That combined with little or no QA means you got to be careful when you're buying cheap.

When I bought my chair, the seller accented that the pressurized canister was made in France, that above it is a metal plate, and that it's dangerous to tamper/customize. Man, now I realize what great info he's been telling me.